Luke 21:2

And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. AND HE SAW A CERTAIN POOR [OR 'INDIGENT' penichran (G3997 )] WIDOW CASTING IN TWO MITES, [ leepta (G3016)] - "which make a farthing" (Mark 12:42); that is, the smallest Jewish coin. The term here rendered "farthing" [ kodrantees (G2835) = quadrans] is the 8th part of the Roman "as"; and thus her whole offering would amount to no more than about the 5th part of our penny. But it was her all. "And He called His disciples" (Mark 12:43) for the purpos...

1-4 From the offering of this poor widow, learn that what we rightly give for the relief of the poor, and the support of God's worship, is given unto God; and our Saviour sees with pleasure whatever we have in our hearts to give for the relief of his members, or for his service. Blessed Lord! the poorest of thy servants have two mites, they have a soul and a body; persuade and enable us to offer both unto thee; how happy shall we be in thine accepting of them!...

Verse Luke 21:2. _A CERTAIN POOR WIDOW_] A widow _miserably poor_; this is the proper import of πενιχραν, and her being _miserably poor_ heightened the merit of the action. _TWO MITES._] Which Mark says, Mark 12:42, make a _farthing_ or _quadrans_, the _fourth_ part of an AS, or _penny_, as we term it. In Plutarch's time we find the smallest piece of brass coin in use among the Romans was the _quadrans_, but it appears that a smaller piece of money was in circulation among the Jews in our Lord's time, called here, and in Mark, Mark 12:42, a _lepton_, i.e. _small, diminished_, from λειπο, _I fail_. In ancient times our penny used to be marked with a deep

See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41. Luke 21:4 PENURY - Poverty. See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41....

EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees—in the covered colonnade of that part of the temple which was open to the Jewish women. Here was the treasury, with its thirteen boxes in the wall, for the reception of the alms of the people. These boxes were called _shopheroth, _or trumpets, because they were shaped like trumpets, swelling out beneath, and tapering upward into a narrow mouth, or opening, into which the alms were dropped. Some of these "trumpets" were marked with special inscriptions, denoting the destination of the offerings....

AND HE SAW ALSO A CERTAIN POOR WIDOW,.... Whom he took particular notice of above all the rest: the poor, and the widow, are regarded by him, and are his care; nor are their mean services, done in faith, and from a principle of love, despised by him, but preferred to the greater services of others, where faith and love are wanting: CASTING IN THITHER TWO MITES; the value of a farthing. The Persic version renders it, "two bottoms of yarn"; Mark 12:42:...

Luke 21:1. _And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but like of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down._ This was literally true of the temple at Jerusalem; and today there remains nothing of it. It is also true of all earthly buildings and of all earthly things. However firm they appear to be, as though they might outlast the centuries themselves, yet the things which a

CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. (Luke 21:8) 5. The Destruction of Jerusalem and the World-wide Dispersion of Israel. (Luke 21:20) 6. The Return of the Lord with Power and Great Glory. (Luke 21:25) 7. The Fig Tree and Warnings. ...

THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. With some abbreviation Lk. closely follows Mark 12:41 *....

Jesus looked up and saw those who were putting their gifts into the treasury--rich people--and he saw a poor widow putting in two lepta. So he said, "I tell you truly that this poor widow has put in more than all, for all these contributed to the gifts out of their abundance, but she, out of her need, has put in everything she had to live on." In the Court of the Women in the Temple there were thirteen collecting boxes known as the Trumpets. They were shaped like trumpets with the narrow part at the top and the wider part at the foot. Each was assigned to offerings for a different purpose--for the wood that was used to burn the sacrifice, for the incense that was burned on the altar, for the upkeep of the golden vessels, and so on. It was near the Trumpets that Jesus was sitting. After the strenuous debates with the emissaries of the Sanhedrin and the Sadducees he was tired and his head...